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His head was turned by too great success.

Seneca the Younger

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice

His head was turned by too great success.

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